Part 9
David and Jason were the only ones who knows, others maybe had suspecting something…
Aaron was so secret …
He knew that Hotch hadn't had a perfect childhood, and as he hadn't expressed himself on the subject, Rossi had managed to collect some pieces of a puzzle to build a short story, Hotch's story, some fragments which unfortunately, sometimes, Hotch was forced to reveal!
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" It's not surprising that some people grow up to become killers!"
" Some people? "
" What's that?"
" You said that some people grow up to become killers!"
" And some people grow up to catch them!"
Sometimes Hotch thought of Vincent Perrotta, and it was clear that this day, he had thanked God that his team hadn't followed the end of the interrogation, on the other hand Vincent, had understood!
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Rossi insisted.
" Aaron, you don't have to do that! "
" I know! " besides, he thought … " But I'm the best to take care of it, and you are there for me if I'll need it! "
He took his phone, and invited Rossi to excuse him.
Since the beginning of the afternoon, he desperately tried to join JJ and he was worried, really worried, and as usual, nobody knew at that moment what bothered him.
He spoke a little and didn't confide, and he hated these calls which didn't succeed, at the same time he was relieved, because the only call which he would never have preferred to hear had destroyed him, and when he thought of that day, he relived it again over and over wondering if he would have been able to arrive earlier and what it would have happened!
Even if Haley and him were divorced, he had always loved her, it was his job which had separated them, and he had said in her burial how much he had loved her, he had never hidden that.
Now he had Jack, the love of his life, a little boy who had continued to live serenely while his father, lived, during several months, a torture every day. Jack was a light which let him advanced and he counted hours to be able to join him when a difficult case retained him to the office!
This little boy was all that he had left now and who allowed him to move forward.
He remembered these long minutes when he hadn't known if Jack was still alive, and when he had wondered how he could survive such a tragedy!
Fortunately, Jack was safe and alive, Jack was precious, Jack was a treasure who deserved to be protected.
Then JJ had arrived in his life but she wasn't there to replace Haley, JJ was another chapter of their story, his and Jack!
JJ had arrived in his heart as this one began to harden, as the man that he was, had quite slowly begun to build an invisible wall around him, as a shell began to lock him inside, and into which he couldn't breathe any more …
He was there, lost in his thoughts and when David approached him, he jumped!
" The kid's parents are in the doctor's office, you can go there! "
Aaron shook his head, David continued:
" Aaron? "
"That will be fine! "
" The kid's name is Jack! "
Rossi saw a profound sadness in his friend's eyes, Hotch breathed, he had brilliant eyes, his heart began beating faster, he was paralyzed some seconds, just to allow him the time to get over it and then he moved in the room where was "Jack".
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Be sure I'll back with another part very soon! (The story is already complete in French!)